My guess? We are about to see the slow-mo drop of the iron fist of a male-dominated society try to crush our lovebirds. This is very typical of the director; he spends the first half building intimate, emotional connections amongst our protagonists, then he spends the second half throwing them to the wolves by placing them on a broader stage with societal trials and tribulations.

I’m not sure my heart is strong enough to suffer this.
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    Please God no, my heart will break and it cannot take it because I’m so needlessly almost unhealthily invested in their relationship.

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      I sincerely hope they are correcting their mistake in SITR. What’s with the same mother playing this amazing character here. That one scene when she reads the situation and confronts her son in law (e 7) was all I needed.

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        @mayhemf …..but I don’t think it was a mistake. I think a broader audience went into SITR expecting a noona romance, and not the thoughtful (difficult) heft of this director’s work (in all fairness, none of his works were completely recapped by Dramabeans in the past). By using the same cast, he’s showing us the problem is the system, not the individual (swoon!😍😍😍)

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          Nice observations guys! *impressed*

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          I have said this before, I would have liked SITR better had the leads never got together in the end. Thats where it felt abrupt and ‘what was the point of all this’ feeling. I do see what the writer is getting at and thanks for that insight.

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          Sorry beantown, I will disagree, my problem with pretty noona was not the expectation of a fluffy romance, but of character growth of the female lead and the extreme patronizing behavior of the male lead character. (@greenfield comment how the male lead is very communicative in One Spring night). The male lead in pretty noona is exactly what Ki-Seok is in One Spring night. They do what they think is right and donot every ask for the other person’s opinion. So sad.
          Like @mayhemf said, the ending was everything wrong with the show, it showed us problems, of everyone making decisions for the female lead from her office harassers, her abusive ex boyfriend, over the top mother and then even her boyfriend. When would she make decision for herself, when will she tell them to stop and live her life. Which was where they went in the last episode, when she went to live in Jeju, but then the boyfriend appears again and no one address the elephant in the house.
          The show never showed the matriarchal side of disapproval, it was just mother upholding the patriarchal values to the top.

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